Do you have a landline phone

[DancesWithWife]

In the wake of millions losing their cell service for hours, some have suggested getting a landline phone. 

 

Our Kingdom Hall uses a VoIP phone system that goes down when there is no Internet. 

 

In our area you can get a landline for $50 a month. We have not had a landline phone in over 15 years. We probably won't go back to one. 

 

Does your kingdom hall use a VoIP or standard landline? Do you have a landline? How would you communicate with those in your area with no cell or Internet?

[Mike047]

Over here, in the UK, we use standard landline at our hall in Dorset. Not sure if all halls here are the same. At home we use landline as well as mobile, because landline seems to have better options for hearing impaired people.

[cdk.h5c]

Over here, in Germany we have a landline phone but it also uses VoIP = no internet no phone. I guess you couldn't get something else here, since it is the technical standard. 

[Qapla]

We do not have a landline. We dropped it many years ago. The area we are in we have a small phone company and the landline service is not the best and they only have DSL Internet.

 

Unfortunately, that is the same phone company we have at the KH so our Internet at the KH is not the best.

 

Comcast/Xfinity was supposed to expand their service to the area where the KH is but, COVID put that on hold and there is no word as to when they may install the service.

 

[Dustparticle]

4 hours ago, DancesWithWife said:

In the wake of millions losing their cell service for hours, some have suggested getting a landline phone. 

 

Our Kingdom Hall uses a VoIP phone system that goes down when there is no Internet. 

 

In our area you can get a landline for $50 a month. We have not had a landline phone in over 15 years. We probably won't go back to one. 

 

Does your kingdom hall use a VoIP or standard landline? Do you have a landline? How would you communicate with those in your area with no cell or Internet?

For a second, I thought you was talking about a Land mine. I need to lay off some of that chocolate.

[DancesWithWife]

45 minutes ago, Dustparticle said:

I need to lay off some of that chocolate.

You can never have enough chocolate! 

[trottigy]

We did until we sold our home and started renting.

 

I had it for the alarm system at the house.

Edited February 24 by trottigy

[pnutts]

When they raised the price way up I dropped my landline about 12 years ago. Already had MagicJack and have kept it active all these years.

I like the fact that with their app I can receive calls on my cellphone when data is active.

[Wanda Hill]

I still have and use a landline. I also have a cell phone that I use sometimes and like to have it when I'm out and about. At present, we have Xfinity for our internet and up until this month it was 65$ a month, they jacked the price up to 122$ a month..I think they are beginning to panic because up until now they had the monopoly on cable and internet but there's a couple of new companies that are offering fiber optic internet at a much lower price. I gotta tell you, Xfinity is not the most honest company to deal with here. We're calling Monday to switch.